Enabling telnet

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 12:25 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> On 11/19/06, replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net
> <replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net> wrote:
> > do you have something listening on port 9734 already? if so, then
> > there's nothing to do, except issue the telnet command (there's no
> > colon between ipnunmber and port in telnet).
> >
> > i.e., unless you didn't install the telnet client for some reason,
> > there's nothing to do to enable use the that client.
> >
> > now, if you don't have something already listening on 9734 and are
> > trying to get the telnet daemon to listen there, that's a different
> > issue.
> >
> > [if you have iptables running you could be blocking inbound connection
> > attempts to random ports and you'd need to adjust that.]
> 
> Thanks, Rick. Apparently, I do not have anything listening on 9734. I
> get the following:
> 
> $ telnet 127.0.0.1
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> $
> 
> Any further ideas?
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psychic powers do not allow telnet to connect to other than port 23
unless it is specifically told to do so.

telnet 127.0.0.1 9734

telnet --help
or
man telnet

will show you the proper terminology

Obviously this assumes that there is a 'listener' for a connection on
port 9734. You can probably verify that something is listening to port
9734 with a command like

netstat -an|grep 9734

Craig